KRCC

KECC redirects here, for the El Centro, California/Yuma, Arizona television station that once used the KECC call letters, see KECY-TV. KRCC (91.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting National Public Radio and eclectic music, licensed to Colorado Springs, Colorado and owned by Colorado College.

History

KRCC began in 1944 as a public address system for the Colorado College campus. It became a carrier current two years later. In April 1951, it received the first noncommercial FM license in the state of Colorado, operating from a World War II surplus transmitter.

Originally a training program for radio and speech students, it became a conventional college radio station in 1968 after Colorado College dropped radio and speech classes. In 1978, the station opened its microphones to the greater Colorado Springs community, paving the way for it to become Colorado's third NPR member station in 1984. From the 1980s onward, it built a series of translators to help better penetrate its largely mountainous service area.

Network

Programming is simulcast on KECC in La Junta (740 watts). Query the FCC's FM station database for KECC and KCCS in Starkville (south of Trinidad, Colorado) (370 watts). Query the FCC's FM station database for KCCS.

KRCC operates seven translators:

• K203AT 88.5 FM Westcliffe / Gardner (250 watts)
• K210CC 89.9 FM Limon (250 watts)
• K211AW 90.1 FM Manitou Springs (86 watts)
• K216DQ 91.1 FM Trinidad / Raton, New Mexico (80 watts)
• K231BR 94.1 FM Walsenburg (50 watts)
• K238BP 95.5 FM Lake George / Florissant / Hartsel (10 watts)
• K239AE 95.7 FM Salida / Buena Vista / Villa Grove (250 watts)
• K289AH 105.7 FM Cañon City (75 watts)

External links

• KRCC dot org
• KRCC on Twitter
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KRCC
• Radio-Locator information on KRCC
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KRCC